Professor Brian D Green
RESEARCH FOCUS
My work concerns molecular aspects of Human Nutrition and Health, focusing specifically on metabolic disease, diabetes and neurodegenerative disease. I investigate metabolites (human and dietary) to answer fundamental biological questions.
The aims are to discover:
- metabolite (metabolomic) signatures of human disease and human dietary patterns?
- the nutritive and non-nutritive benefits which can be harnessed from the metabolites and components of our diet?
RESEARCH Themes
Public Health Nutrition
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Projects are available for enthusiastic new researchers to investigate:
- High resolution LC-MS/MS metabolite profiling of novel animal model of ageing and dementia
- Discovery of novel metabolomic biomarkers indicating risk of delirium or cognitive decline
- Food and plant bioactives with therapeutic actions in diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease
Research students
PhD title: “Assessing adherence to the Mediterranean Diet: new tools, biomarkers and associations with healthy ageing."
Name: Mr Gonçalo Rosas da Silva
Years of Study: 2018-2021
Country: Portugal
PhD title: “Metabolomic profiling of healthy ageing and healthy dietary patterns”
Name: Miss Shirin Macias
Years of Study: 2016-2019
Country: Spain
PhD title: “High-value functional dairy products from low-value whey proteins: proving the concept”
Name: Miss Joanna Shooter
Years of Study: 2016-2019
Country: Northern Ireland
Alumni: where are they now?
Name: Dr Elaine Cowan
PhD title: “Development of obestatin analogues and investigation of their effects on metabolism in obesity and type 2 diabetes”
Years of Study: 2012-2016
Country: Ireland
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lund.
Name: Dr Anna Gillespie
PhD title: “Examining the anti-diabetic potential of dairy proteins: effects on enteroendocrine cells”
Years of Study: 2012-2016
Country: Northern Ireland
Current position: Medical Writer, Logicearth
Name: Dr Muhammad Bin Nasaruddin
PhD Title: “Metabolomics methodologies to discover brain metabolite changes and better understand Alzheimer’s disease”
Years of Study: 2013-2017
Country: Malaysia
Current Position: Lecturer, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Name: Dr Norah Althoubaiti
PhD title: “Developing and testing a novel model system for Alzheimer's disease”
Years of Study: 2013-2017
Country: Saudi Arabia
Current position: Researcher, Riyadh University
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